Opinionated About Dining Survey now online

I didn't do Steve Plotnicki's Opinionated About Dining Survey justice in my brief note a few weeks ago.

If you love your food and are happy to pay for it, then this is the guide for you.

The guide's USP is that it is compiled based on the views of people with similar sentiment and cleverly, the more dining experience a reviewer has, the greater weight Steve gives their review.

Although you can access the book in full online, I'd strongly recommend buying a copy if only so it's always in your briefcase/handbag and you can ensure you never visit anywhere in Europe or America, that doesn't have a top ranked restaurant. Although at the moment the guide is only for high-end restaurants, Steve is currently compiling a list of cheaper eats as well.

You can register to become a reviewer here. It's worth doing because the guide's utility will increase, with more well informed diners offering their reviews.

UPDATE: It's well worth reading the overrated list on Opinionated About Dining. It's basically a compilation of those restaurants that the likes of Harden's and Zagat's rate highly, but the OAD survey gives a thumbs down to. I'm surprised to see Pétrus on there - I'm not the only one - but there is an explanation.

Comments

[John Whiting]

". . . the more dining experience a reviewer has, the greater weight Steve gives their review." As ever, the opinion to which Steve gives the greatest weight is his own. There is no topic on which he is not prepared to expatiate at Johnsonian length; a Boswell would be superfluous.

[Silverbrow]

John,you're not wrong, but then again it is called Opinionated About...